Hi all---- So I started a new job with a company that does lots of work with open source solutions, which is fun. One of the first tasks I've been put up to is researching clustering technology for a client. The client has a cluster of VA Linux webservers that are currently set up with round-robin DNS; they want a more robust solution that'll route traffic away from dead webservers and do load-balancing among the servers that are up. I've never touched clustering technology, and this is a bit daunting to me. Can anyone recommend which software/packages/vendors I should look at or stay away from? For example, I've been warned away from piranha because of security issues in recent versions. Or, for that matter, can anyone tell me what's behind the various cluster/HA products on the commercial market? Most of them look like packaged versions of the LVS project's tools. So far, I've looked at Understudy (http://www.polyserve.com/prod_overview.html) and at packages that various Linux vendors offer (Redhat, TurboLinux). I'm also looking at Ultramonkey, which seems to be a decent noncommercial package of the Linux Virtual Server project's tools. How much of a pain is it to set up clustering with any of these, and which tools offer the best feature set? TIA, srl -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Shane R. Landrum + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Software/Systems Engineer ------------------ www.ainnovations.com ----- Anansi Innovations -- _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
